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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A43344	A discourse concerning meekness and quietness of spirit to which is added, A sermon on Acts 28. 22, shewing that the Christian religion is not a sect, and yet that it is every where spoken against / by Matthew Henry ...	Henry, Matthew, 1662-1714.; Henry, Matthew, 1662-1714. Sermon on Acts XXVII, 22.; Howe, John, 1630-1705.	1699 (1699)	Wing H1475_PARTIAL; Wing H1476_PARTIAL; ESTC R14901	132,581	220

made all things Nay even now he is set down at the right-hand of the Majesty on high far above all Principalities and Powers i. e. both good and evil Angels so as to be no more hurt by the contradictions of the one than he is benefitted by the Adorations of the other yet still he is spoken against Besides the Contempt cast upon him by the Iews and Mahometans are there not with us even with us those that daringly speak against him Arians and Socinians are daily speaking against him as a meer Man thinking that a Robbery in him which He thought none to be equal with God Quakers and Entbus●asts speak against Him as a meer Name setting up I know not what Christ within them while they explode that Iesus that was Crucified at Ierusalem Atheists and Deists 〈◊〉 against Him as a meer Cheat accounting the 〈…〉 a great Imposture and His 〈◊〉 a Iest. Profane and Ignorant 〈…〉 slightly of Him as if our Beloved were no more than anoth●●●eloved and some 〈…〉 cornfully of Him as Iulian the Apostate did that call'd Him in disdain the Galilean and the Carpenter's Son Such as these are the hard speeches which ungodly Sinners have spoken against Him the Lord rebuke them even the Lord that hath chose● Ie●●salem rebuke them 2. God himself the great Object of our Religious Regards is every where spoken against It is not only the Christian Revelation that is thus attack'd by virulent and blasphemous Tongues but even Natural Religion also The Glorious and Blessed God the great Creator and Benefactor of the Universe that doth Good to all and whose tender Merc●es are over all His Works even He is every where spoken against Some deny His Being Tho' His Existence be so necessary so evident that if He be not t is impossible any thing else should be yet there are Fools who say in their hearts what they dare not speak out that there is no God Psal. 14. 1. And he that saith there is no God wisheth there were none and if he could help it there should be none Others Blaspheme the Attributes of God that charge the All-seeing Ey● with Blindness saying The Lord shall not see Psal. 94. 7. that charge the Eternal Mind with Forgetfulness saying God hath forgotten Psal. 10. 11. that charge the Almighty Arm with Impotency saying Can God furnish a Table in the Wilderness which is there call'd speaking against God Psal. 78. 19 20. Thos●● 〈…〉 promise themsel●● 〈…〉 They shall not surely die 〈…〉 re●uire it And th●se that bold●● 〈…〉 and Irreligi●●● saying unto 〈…〉 Depart from us Job 21. 14 15. 〈…〉 of God tho' He is infinitely Great and Glorious others speak hardly of Him tho' he is infinitely Just and Good The Name of God is spoken against by the profane using of it so it is construed Psal. 〈◊〉 39 20. They speak against thee wickedly thine Enemies take thy Name in vain● Can there be a greater slight put upon the Eternal God than for Men to use his Sacred and Blessed Name as a By-word with which they give vent to their exorbitant Passions or fill up the vacanci●s of their other Idle-words The Name of God is thus abus'd not only by those that bel●h out bloody Oaths and ●urses which make the Ears of every good Man to tingle but by ●●ose that mention the Name of God slightly and irreverently in their common Conversation in whose mouths he is near when he is far from their reins To use those forms of speech which properly signify an Acknowledgment and Adoration of God's Being as O God or O Lord or an Appeal to his Omniscience as God knows or an Invocation of his Favour as God bless me or God be merciful to me● I say to use these or the like expressions impertinently and intending thereby to express only our wonder our surp●ize or our passionate resentments or any thing than that which is their proper and awful signification is an evidence of a vain mind that wants a due regard to that glorious and fearful Name The Lord our God I see not that the Profanation of the Ordinance of praying is any bett●● 〈◊〉 the Profanation of the Ordinance of Swearing The serious ●●●sideration of this I hope might prevent much of that 〈◊〉 which is 〈…〉 God and to his Holy Name by some that 〈◊〉 not with others to an exce●● of Ri●t The Pro●●dence of God 〈◊〉 likewise every where spoken against by Mur●●u●ers and Complainers that qua●●el with it and find fault with the disposals of it and when they are hardly bestead curse their King and their God Thus is the mouth of the ungodly set against the Heavens and their Tongue walket●●●hbrough the Earth 〈◊〉 The Word of God the great Rule of our Religion is every where spoken against so it was 〈◊〉 was first preached wherever the Apo●●●es 〈◊〉 preaching the Doctrine of Christ they 〈…〉 those that spake against it ●ontradicting and 〈…〉 So it is now it is 〈◊〉 Atheists speak against the Scriptures as not of Authority 〈◊〉 speak against it as dark and uncertain further than it is expounded and supported by the Authority of their Church which receives unwritten Traditions pari pietatis affectu ac reverentiâ with the same pious affection and reverence that they receive the Scripture nay and if we may judge by their practice with much more Thus is the Word of God blasphemed by them who call themselves the Temple of the Lord. But if we take away Revelation as the Deists do all Religion will soon be lost and if we derogate from the Scriptures as the Papists do all Revelation is much endangered Those also speak against the Scriptures who profanely Iest with them and that they may the more securely Rebel against Scripture Laws make themselves and their idle Companions merry with the Scripture Language The Word of the Lord is unto them a reproach as the Prophet complains Ier. 6. 10. And another Prophet found it so whose serious word of the necessity of Precept upon Precept was turned into an idle Song as Grotius understands it Isa. 28. 13. The word of the Lord was unto them Precept upon Precept Very likely it was done by the Drunkards of Ephraim spoken of v. 1. and it gave occasion to that Caution v. 22. Be ye not mockers lest your Bands be made strong Profligate and Debauched Minds relish no wit like that which ridicules the Sacred Text and exposeth that to Contempt As of old the insulting 〈◊〉 must be humour'd with the Songs of Sion and no Cups can please Belshazzar in his drunken Frollick but the Sacred Vessels of the Temple Thus industrious are the Powers of Darkness to Vilify the Scriptures and to make them coutemptible but he that sits in Heaven shall laugh at them for in spite of all the little efforts of their impotent Malice He will magnifie the Law and make it honourable according to the